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- The junta has arrested more than 143 journalists as of December 2022 and shut down independent news outlets. In rural areas, soldiers have burned homes and villages, raped women, shot at fleeing civilians and cut off food supplies. Fighter jets have bombed civilian encampments.
Jun 24, 2024 · Facing increasing international isolation, the junta has reportedly lost control of close to 60 percent of Myanmar’s territory. For more on the current state of Myanmar’s civil war, read my ...
- Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic ...
Vowing to resist the military junta, former lawmakers and...
- The Bottom Is Falling Out for Myanmar’s Junta | Council on ...
The Myanmar army is experiencing a rapid rise in defections...
- Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic ...
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- Introduction
- What Has Happened Since The 2021 Coup?
- Has Myanmar Always Been Ruled by The Military?
- Who Is Aung San Suu Kyi?
- Why Has Myanmar Endured So Many Ethnic Conflicts?
- What Is Myanmar’s Economic situation?
- What Is Myanmar’s Relationship with China?
- What Is U.S. Policy Toward Myanmar?
Throughout its decades of independence, Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty. A military coup in February 2021 dashed hopes for democratic reforms in the Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar has now entered a violent new chapter. The military, known as the Tatmadaw, faces widespread, fierce opposit...
In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders staged a coup. The move came after the military’s proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP),suffered a major blowin the 2020 elections. The junta—officially called the State Administration Council—detained and charged de facto civilian leader Aung San S...
Myanmar has been ruled by a military junta for many of the years since it gained independence from British colonial rule in 1948. The Union of Burma began as a parliamentary democracy, like most of its newly independent neighbors on the Indian subcontinent. But representative democracy only lasted until 1962, when General Ne Win led a military coup...
Suu Kyi, the daughter of independence hero General Aung San, rose to prominence during the 1988 protests. After the crackdown, she and others formed the NLD opposition party. She was detained in 1989 and spent more than fifteen years in prison and under house arrest until her release in 2010. In 1991, Suu Kyi wasawarded the Nobel Peace Prizewhile s...
Myanmar is a diverse country, with the state recognizing more than one hundred ethnic groups. Forming roughlytwo-thirds of the population, ethnic Burmans, known as the Bamar, have enjoyed a privileged position in society and have held a majority of government and military positions. Many ethnic minority groups, on the other hand, have faced systemi...
Myanmar has long been poorer than most of its neighbors due to isolationist policies favored by the military junta in the 1960s and 1970s, economic mismanagement since then, and ongoing conflict, among other issues. Much of the population relies on agriculture to make a living. Poverty has remained high in rural areas, where most people live. The c...
China, which borders Myanmar, has been the country’s largest trading partner and its closest diplomatic ally in recent years. After the coup, Beijing eventually gave the military leadersde facto recognition. (Russiahas emerged as one of the strongest international supporters of the junta, with Moscow boosting military and economic cooperation with ...
The United States maintained a distant relationship with Myanmar after the late 1980s, enforcing broad-based economic sanctions on the country in the next two decades. Myanmar’s return to quasi-civilian rule led the United States to reestablish ties with it and drop broad-based sanctions. But the coup has brought another downturn in the relationshi...
- Lindsay Maizland
Despite two years of unrestrained attacks on the general population, the junta continues to lose territory to powerful Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and the swelling ranks of Peoples Defense Forces (PDFs) that formed to fight the regime.
Apr 22, 2024 · The Myanmar army is experiencing a rapid rise in defections and military losses, posing questions about the continued viability of the junta’s grip on power.
- Joshua Kurlantzick
Jan 24, 2024 · Despite military conflict persisting across large swaths of Myanmar in 2024, the ruling military junta will retain firm control of the major population centers — namely, Yangon, Naypyidaw, and...
Dec 9, 2022 · The junta has arrested more than 143 journalists as of December 2022 and shut down independent news outlets.
Feb 21, 2024 · NEW YORK (21 February 2024) – Myanmar’s military junta is becoming an even greater threat to civilians, even as it shows further signs of weakness and desperation through the imposition of mandatory military service, warned a UN expert.
